Leon Panetta says US troops will need to return to combat in Afghanistan

NY Post ^ | 08/27/2021 | Lee Brown

[ChicagoConservative27]

Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says US troops will need to go back into combat in Afghanistan — as the region remains on high alert for more suicide attacks, with the death toll from Thursday’s atrocity rising to more than 100, including 13 US soldiers.

“We’re going to have to go back in to get ISIS,” Panetta told CNN, calling Thursday’s twin suicide blasts by the reinvigorated terrorist group “Joe Biden’s worst nightmare.”

“We’re probably going to have to go back in when al Qaeda resurrects itself, as they will, with this Taliban,” he predicted.

“They gave safe haven to al Qaeda before, they’ll probably do it again,” predicted Panetta, who was the director of the CIA and oversaw the US operation that killed the terror group’s leader, Osama bin Laden.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Just last week he called this the bay of pigs and now wants to go back in.

[caver]

So we can get more soldiers killed?

[LIConFem]

“Any way the wind blows, doesn’t really matter, to me...”

[Alberta's Child]

This guy is a moron. I’ll listen to what he has to say about this nonsense as closely as I listen to what that dope Fauci has to say about COVID.

Note: I have so completely tuned Fauci out that I don’t even know if he’s still alive.

[wally_bert]

Being on the mandatory juice won’t help.

Going in questionable and maybe get really ill in large numbers won’t help.

[jimfree]

Panetta is not advocating we go back in. He is stating the likely result of Biden’s incompetence and neglect.

[Sacajaweau]

This was a NATO mission. We are not the only ones involved here.

[Travis McGee]

[JonPreston]

Leon knows what he's saying. He has his big, fat nose in war x 50 years.

[Irenic]

No, we just bomb them to hell.

[Lurker]

Ef you, Leon.

You go.

L

[wally_bert]

Hanging with the loather of the military who only exhaled.

[Leep]

Must be someone asked him what he thought?

[Red Badger]

NO.

Next time just go straight to nukes.
Forget ‘boots on the ground’.

No need for boots on radioactive ground............................

[pepsionice]

Look around, zero NATO coordination. For the past ten days....they’ve tried to get the ‘plan’ from anyone in DC, and no one talks. Lot of frustration over Biden piling up.

[EEGator]

Get all US citizens out, MOAB this shithole, and burn and salt the poppy fields.

[DoodleBob]

Dear Mr Panetta:

I am looking forward to seeing you, William Kristol, and every other warmonger who loves sacrificing blood and treasure in the absence of a direct threat to our soil, pick up a gun and fly to Kabul.

Absent that, please go perform an anatomically impossible act.

Sincerely,
Sanity

[ronnie raygun]

So we can get more soldiers killed?
AND FEED THE MILITARY COMPLEX AND ITS INVESTORS

[Bon of Babble]

Hey Panetta - you first. You be the first one on the front line to show us how it’s done.

Or it is just other people’s children you are OK with getting killed?

[pingman]

Some will call it aquiline.